Solange’s ‘breathtaking and psychedelic’ offering barely played from start to finish before social media reviewers began pitting her against her older sister – and I really have to ask myself why people can’t just let people be?

Already commentators – I use this word very lightly as some of you just have the title thanks to wWi-Fi access – have created ranking polls on Twitter comparing Solange’s vocals, lyrics and, most bizarrely, her looks to that of Beyonce.

Why can’t we just let them be? (Picture: Rex Features)

The 32-year-old gave us all that we have been waiting for – after dipping out of social media for five months – and dropped a follow up to her Grammy-winning A Seat At The Table.

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After five listens before 8am on Friday morning – yes, I am that kind of fan – I decided it was safe to say this is Sol’s greatest piece of work judging by my early favourites Almeda, My Skin, My Logo and Dreams.

Her expression of art, musical freedom, refusal to conform to the traditional formats of song-making and bad-ass authenticity, has given her a loyal fan-base that has grown with her since the very early Noughties.

You know the era when many of us wore those god-awful metallic waist belts with shoelaces to match our Primark tees?

Sorry for the fashion drag, I’m just demonstrating how long it has been since Solange first emerged on to the scene.

Solange does not make music for the charts, nor has she ever recorded a music video with a trend in mind.

The lass even dances to beat of her own drum – quite literally, just watch her on stage – and will release the sounds of the 1960s and 1970s with Motown-influences no matter what year she woke up in.

Sister, sister. (Picture: Getty Images)

Her lyrics are poetic and for everyone – and at times solely for black women; just listen to Almeda when she sings ‘black skin, black braids, black waves, black days’ in a feature with The Dream and Playboi Carti.

The Bring It On actor began her career writing hits as a teenager for Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams while they were dominating the charts and the world as mega girl group Destiny’s Child, and then released her first album Solo Star in 2002 when she was 16-years-old.

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It’s fair to say her merit proves that she deserves to exist without being forcibly put in the shadows of her sister when they are clearly slaying in their own lanes.

Following the success of Solange’s third album that debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, both Bey and Sol had the honour of being the first sisters to achieve number one albums on the Billboard 200 in the same calendar year.

Of course, 37-year-old Beyonce has achieved some many historic things on her own – do I really need to list these “things”? – but must this mean we have to compare the sisters against each other or assume that there is some kind of household rivalry?

Back in 2009, Solange tweeted to fans attempting to compare and pit the two against each other to ‘kiss both our Knowles asses if you don’t like it’.

Word. I say do what Sol said.

Thanks to the pressures of social media, women – and men – already compare themselves to each other and the impact is more than negative especially when it comes to looks and self-esteem.

Pitting women against each other is an age-old practice that needs to die. The practice is so ingrained in some people’s minds that many robbed themselves of the purely magical experience of listening to some good music without trying to play the comparison game.

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Honestly, try it if you haven’t already got back to your streaming platforms, hit play on When I Get Home and egg yourself on to not think of a certain Beyonce.

It is very possible for a talented woman to exist on her own.

Rather than compare the two maybe we should ask how on earth their parents managed to raise two mega humans in one generation.

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